As the decision-makers and implementers of a firm’s financial strategy,executives play a critical role in cash holding activities,and their psychological characteristics have a major impact on cash holdings.This pape...As the decision-makers and implementers of a firm’s financial strategy,executives play a critical role in cash holding activities,and their psychological characteristics have a major impact on cash holdings.This paper investigates the association between CEO organizational identification and firm cash holdings.The empirical results show that CEO organizational identification is negatively associated with firm cash holdings,and the negative association is more pronounced when the level of financial development is higher and economic uncertainty is lower.Further analysis reveals that the higher a CEO’s organizational identification,the higher the firm’s R&D investment and capital expenditure,and high CEO organizational identification can increase the value of firm cash holdings.Overall,our findings supplement the literature on organizational identification and cash holdings,and on the effect of executives’psychological characteristics on corporate financial decision-making.展开更多
基金the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.71862017,71802199,71972152)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2018M642587)+1 种基金Shenzhen“Peacock Project”High-level Talents Research Foundation,Shenzhen Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Science,China(Xi’an)Institute for Silk Road Research Program(Grant No.2019YA03)Education Department of Shaanxi Province Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Science(Grant No.20JZ053)
文摘As the decision-makers and implementers of a firm’s financial strategy,executives play a critical role in cash holding activities,and their psychological characteristics have a major impact on cash holdings.This paper investigates the association between CEO organizational identification and firm cash holdings.The empirical results show that CEO organizational identification is negatively associated with firm cash holdings,and the negative association is more pronounced when the level of financial development is higher and economic uncertainty is lower.Further analysis reveals that the higher a CEO’s organizational identification,the higher the firm’s R&D investment and capital expenditure,and high CEO organizational identification can increase the value of firm cash holdings.Overall,our findings supplement the literature on organizational identification and cash holdings,and on the effect of executives’psychological characteristics on corporate financial decision-making.